Planetary remnants around white dwarf stars

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https://phys.org/news/2021-07-planetary ... stars.html

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Astronomers have established that planets orbiting stars can usually survive the late stages of their host's evolution. The rocky planets are broken apart and disbursed into dusty debris disks, and so white dwarf stars should retain remnant evidence of their planetary companions.

Good for the rocky planets that their remnants survive, not so good for any life in such systems to survive, though admittedly the life (if any is present) would have been wiped out during the red giant phase.